A 12-year-old Italian girl on vacation with her family in France died from suffocation in a hole she dug at a beach.
The girl’s death was confirmed by the Italian foreign ministry.
The victim suffocated in a hole she dug at the La Teste-de-Buch beach near Gironda.
Lifeguards alerted medics after the girl was spotted partially buried.
Witnesses said they saw a “happy girl” who spent hours digging the hole which would later take her life.
—IANS